joins us now. rafael, just to explain what is going on here, these surveillance planes, basically monitoring citizens from the skies, that's very orwellian, isn't it? >> it does sound orwellian. the track patterns of outdoor drug markets, open-air drug markets, where a lot of the violence is stemming from a net city. one of the things new york city benefited from when they took on the attack on crime throughout the '90s, it pushed the drug market indoors. what that does is takes potential targets off the streets. these are people that are going to be shot at, and raises the transaction cost of certain kinds of crime, that's what they're trying to get with the surveillance. >> mark: something like 70% of those involved in homicides have derived from the drug trade, basically. >> that's right. baltimore released some interesting statistics about its 2017 murder suspects. 70% of them had a prior,
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